Holy in All Our Behavior

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“As obedient children, do not be conformed to the former lusts which were yours in your ignorance, but like the Holy One who called you, be holy yourselves also in all your behavior; because it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”​

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“If you address as Father the One who impartially judges according to each one’s work, conduct yourselves in fear during the time of your stay on earth; knowing that you were not redeemed with perishable things like silver or gold from your futile way of life inherited from your forefathers, but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, the blood of Christ. For He was foreknown before the foundation of the world, but has appeared in these last times for the sake of you who through Him are believers in God, who raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.” (1 Peter 1:14-21 NASB1995) ​

When we believe in Jesus Christ with God-honoring faith in him, which is of God, which is gifted to us by God, which is not of our own doing, and which is persuaded of God, we will be crucified with Christ in death to sin and raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin, but as slaves to God and to his righteousness. The old is gone. The new has come. So, as obedient children, we are no longer to be conformed to our former lusts, to where sin is what we obey, and not God.

[Ephesians 2:8-10; Romans 6:1-23; Ephesians 4:17-24; Acts 26:18]

So if this is not what you are being taught as the gospel message, then you are not being taught the truth. For so many people today are teaching a very diluted and altered gospel message which does not require death to sin and walks of obedience to the Lord of the “believer” in Christ Jesus. So many are telling you that all you have to do is to make a profession of faith in Jesus Christ and now all your sins are forgiven and heaven is guaranteed you when you die, but regardless of how you live. That is not the biblical gospel.

For all throughout the New Testament we are taught that we, as believers in Christ, must deny self, put sin to death daily, by the Spirit, and walk in obedience to our Lord and to his commands, in surrender to his will and purpose for our lives, in holy living, and no longer in sin. For to be holy is to be different from the world because we are being conformed by God to the character of Jesus Christ, if we are. And we are to be holy in ALL our behaviors (conduct), for God commands it of his followers, that we be holy.

All of us, Christian and non-Christian, will stand before the Lord on the day of judgment, and we will be judged by God according to what we have done, i.e. according to each one’s work. If we have been faithful in service to the Lord in walks of obedience to his commands, and if we have been putting sin to death in our lives, and we are no longer living in sin, then we have salvation from sin and eternal life with God. But if sin is still our practice, and obedience to God is not, we will not inherit eternal life with God.

Therefore, we must conduct ourselves in fear (honor, respect, obedience to God) during the time of our stay on the earth. We are not to become lazy and casual about our walks of faith and presume upon God that he is going to let us into his heaven just because we professed him as our Lord and Savior. For Jesus, in his death on that cross, shed his blood for us to buy us back for God (to redeem us) out of our lives of slavery to sin so that we will now serve our Lord in walks of surrender to him in obedience to his ways.

Now, Jesus Christ is not only the only begotten Son of God, but he is God, the second person of our triune God – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. So he always existed with God. And he was with the children of Israel in the Old Testament, even though he was not yet in bodily form, as he was once he was born into this world as a human baby, conceived of the Holy Spirit in the womb of the virgin Mary. So while he lived on the earth he was fully God and fully human (God incarnate), but he was without sin entirely.

[Isaiah 53:1-12; Matthew 26:26-29; Luke 17:25; John 1:1-36; John 6:35-58; John 8:24,58; John 10:27-33; John 20:28-29; Romans 5:8; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 9:5; 1 Corinthians 11:23-32; 1 Corinthians 15:1-8; Ephesians 2:8-10; Philippians 2:5-11; Colossians 2:9; Titus 2:13; Hebrews 1:8-9; Hebrews 2:14-15; Hebrews 4:15; 1 Peter 1:20-21; 2 Peter 1:1]

And Jesus taught that if we are to come after him that we must deny self, take up our cross daily (die daily to sin) and follow (obey) him. For if we hold on to our old lives of living in sin and for self, we will lose our lives for eternity. But if we deny self, put sin to death daily, by the Spirit, and walk (in conduct, in practice) in obedience to our Lord’s New Covenant commands, then we have the hope of salvation from sin and eternal life with God, but provided that we continue in these walks of faith in obedience to our Lord.

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Matthew 10:22; Luke 9:23-26; John 8:31-32; John 10:27-30; John 15:1-12; Acts 26:18; Romans 2:6-8; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-24; Romans 11:17-24; Romans 13:11; 1 Corinthians 1:18; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; 1 Corinthians 15:1-2; Galatians 5:16-24; Colossians 1:21-23; 2 Timothy 1:8-9; 2 Timothy 2:10-13; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:6,14-15; Hebrews 9:28; 1 Peter 1:5,9; 2 Peter 1:5-11; 1 John 2:24-25]

For Our Nation

Bombs are bursting. Night is falling.
Jesus Christ is gently calling
You to follow Him in all ways.
Trust Him with your life today.
Make Him your Lord and your Savior.
Turn from your sin. Follow Jesus.
He will forgive you of your sin;
Cleanse your heart, made new within.

Men betraying: Our trust fraying.
On our knees to God we’re praying,
Seeking God to give us answers
That are only found in Him.
God is sovereign over all things.
Nothing from His mind escaping.
He has all things under His command,
And will work all for good.

Jesus Christ is gently calling
You to follow Him in all ways.

Men deceiving: We’re believing
In our Lord, and interceding
For our nation and its people
To obey their God today.
He is our hope for our future.
For our wounds He offers suture.
He is all we need for this life.
Trust Him with your life today.

An Original Work / September 11, 2012
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Holy in All Our Behavior
An Original Work / April 24, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

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When we believe in Jesus Christ with God-honoring faith in him, ... we will be crucified with Christ in death to sin and raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin, but as slaves to God and to his righteousness.

I cannot agree with your version of the way to be crucified with Christ.
Rom 6 tells us how we die with Christ.
" Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:"
6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin." (Rom 6:3-6)
Our "immersion" into Christ, and into His death (burial and resurrection) happens at our water baptism into Him.
That faith you cite, must be illustrated by baptism, or it is a dead faith.